January 16, 2025 | 1:00 PM ET – 2:30 PM ET - Zoom

🚨 Virtual Community Event: Get Prepared – Protect Yourself & Your Community from State Repression.

As part of MJF’s work to get community prepared, join us for an essential virtual Know Your Rights session and the launch of our virtual Community Defense Hub, hosted by Muslims for Just Futures and our MJF Legal Network, offering vital resources and actionable tools to protect yourself and your community from state repression.

Here’s what to expect:

-Launch of Virtual Community Defense Hub and Overview

-Explore the MJF virtual Community Defense Hub and the comprehensive resources it offers for community resilience.

-Know Your Rights Session

- Learn from MJF legal network attorneys about asserting your rights against law enforcement, immigration authorities, state surveillance, and state repression. This session will revisit critical lessons from past state prosecutions against activists, including mistakes made under the first iteration of the Trump Administration, and equip you with strategies to be prepared for what lies ahead.

-Legal Language & Harm Reduction

Build your capacity to use legal language—the language of state power—to minimize harm inflicted by the state

Event Link: Get Prepared: Protect Yourself and Community from State Repression

🗣️ Featured Speakers:

Bina Ahmad (she/her) is a social justice attorney specializing in criminal defense, civil rights, human rights, and animal rights. With nearly a decade of experience as a public defender and civil rights litigator, she has supported numerous advocacy organizations and delivered hundreds of Know Your Rights trainings.

Amber Qureshi is an attorney focused on government transparency and migrants’ rights. She is the founder of the Law Office of Amber Qureshi, LLC and has worked on litigating Freedom of Information Act requests, as well as challenging anti-immigrant policies through the National Immigration Project.

Nabihah Maqbool (she/her) is a plaintiff-side attorney with expertise in national civil rights litigation, prisoner rights, and investigations. She has a deep commitment to liberation and justice, working with coalitions focused on systemic change.

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